How to Use afterlife in a Sentence

afterlife

noun

• Does he believe in an afterlife?
• When the ritual concludes, the body is ready for the earth, the soul for the afterlife.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
• Trump, win or lose, doesn’t merely have a post-November 3 afterlife.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Nov. 2020
• As a devout Catholic, Joe Biden believes in the afterlife.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 10 Nov. 2020
• The idea for the move was that her grandmother could be seen, touched, and could go into the afterlife in the embrace of her family.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2020
• The Mexican holiday is an ode to the afterlife and a reminder that death is nothing to be afraid of.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 1 Nov. 2020
• Instead, her son’s afterlife is hard-won through the anguished labor of repetition.
  — Clair Wills, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• Instead, this is a celebration of the ever-growing afterlife of a woman who spent so many of her days thinking about death.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2020
• Boats symbolized safe passage into the afterlife and were usually accorded to the elite of Viking society.
  — Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020
• Additionally, in the final moments of the movie, a close-up shot shows a glimpse of a hand that somewhat resembles Maximus' in the afterlife, though a face is never shown.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
• La Calavera Catrina, the Mexican grand dame of the afterlife, is charged with protecting deceased loved ones.
  — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• The video shows the late Kardashian patriarch in full holographic form, addressing Kim directly and sending his love from the afterlife.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• King Tut was buried with a passel of the seeds, to spice up the afterlife.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2021
• He’s trapped not just in the afterlife but in the non-stop theatre of his own mind.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
• Leave it to David Bowie to make his presence known in the afterlife.
  — Fred Sahai, Billboard, 3 May 2022
• Beer was even a part of the afterlife, or at least Egyptians hoped so.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• Those experts are the cast of CBS' Ghosts, who have some knowledge of what goes on in the afterlife.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• Lamps were sometimes buried with the dead to light their way into the afterlife.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• This gives them all hope that death isn’t the end, and that The Midnight Club will continue even in the afterlife.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Oct. 2022
• Dave Itzkoff on the strange afterlife of George Carlin.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• In the Islamic faith, the 40th day after a death marks the deceased’s soul passing from the earth to the afterlife.
  — Sara Mhaidli, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• But that's starting to change, from video games about the afterlife to TV shows that help prepare you to pass.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• Given its brief existence, the life of the show has also been very much about the afterlife of the show.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• This is what businesses like Shein hope for us: the afterlife is a store.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2022
• The fabric of human life and afterlife were, at many times, the very things Dean and Sam gave their blood, sweat, lives and tears to save.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• The animals may have been buried to recreate the gardens for the deceased in the afterlife.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• What’s a wedding night in the afterlife without a few frights?
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• While Judaism posits belief in the afterlife, this world, the world of the living, is paramount.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• But now that she’s spoken aloud her fears about facing Nicholas, and collected her locket from Billy, Agatha seems much softer and more at peace with her fate in afterlife limbo.
  — Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024